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Len, your vegetables look beautiful.

Will is still bringing home lots of vegetables. Sadly, most of the tomatoes have had to come home to finish ripening, but at least we have them. We are down to one plant out of 27 that Will is leaving just so some can ripen there - the bacterial blight and powdery mildew have hit most of the gardens at the community - even our neighbor whose tomatoes lasted a little longer than ours.

The cucumbers are still prolific - Bush Slicer from Rene's Garden if anyone is interested - you can grown them in a container and they are delicious. He's been making lots of refrigerator B&B pickles. I'm going to make my Mom's cucumber mousse, probably tomorrow.The eggplant is still doing well, we got some more beans and still getting some squash. Because of the rain, Will has stopped his proactive maintenance.

We gave up the one empty plot a couple of weeks ago and the new couple has already started. When our production is finished on the current one, we will give that up as well. The other members of our group are having success at home with some tomato plants which is encouraging. I'm glad we tried at the community garden, but also glad we knew when to quit. It's a real incubator for all those diseases that circulate via the wind.

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Thanks BA 😁

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Sadly, Mike, I got there without Michael - I don't know if it still counts if you're not there together - we did make it to 31 together.

That's why I usually say - it would have been our 40th or whichever - or we were married 40 years ago - I think those are more accurate.

But, thank you all for your kind thoughts.

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We’re having pizza in honor of my husband - we were married 40 years ago today - lots of fresh veggies from the garden for toppings

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I made zucchini bread. I lost the recipes I used to use so I tried Brown Eyed Baker’s recipe. I’m glad I did - it’s really good. I did check its temperature and took it out at 200 degrees - fully baked but still moist.

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We may have gotten our last tomatoes as the plants keep dying. But we still have lots of cucumbers, eggplant, squash and basil. We have peppers but Will just picked his first fully ripe (red) Cajun Bell pepper - supposed to be hot but not too hot.

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🙄 does that mean men can now do it too?

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I just grilled some chicken tenders to use in chicken salad. There were quite a lot so it's possible I might not use them all and save some for another meal.

I'm with BA - some of the "birthing people" aren't necessarily the mothers that actually are supportive.

Happy Fathers Day to you Mike and all the other dads connected to the forum.

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To make you all feel better - it is hot here and we are still getting tomatoes, peppers and so many cucumbers! Will has been making refrigerator pickles like crazy.

We have squash, eggplant, kale, basil and a few carrots to share - oh and tomatoes. We had a big harvest of beans earlier in the week.

Will was able to fight back our powdery mildew, but we keep losing the tomato plants to bacterial wilt - we are not alone in this. There is one member of the community who farmed in West Georgia - he says it is completely different here and he is losing tomato plants as well. As you drive through the garden, you can see that many people are having similar issues.

We were finally able to convince the person who started the project (but never had time to help) to give up the two plots. So, someone will pick up the empty plot shortly and we will give up the other one when our harvesting is done. Then we will all garden in containers on our own properties. It will be much easier to manage.

Last one, my flower bed - we planted short sunflowers, cosmos and zinnias - everyone is looking great - the sunflowers have lots of buds and the zinnias are already flowering.

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Happy Birthday, Cass! I hope you have a wonderful day with your favorite foods🥳

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Will is making pizza tonight

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Joan, eons ago, my sister’s favorite cake was angel food and she wanted one for her birthday. My mother wasn’t going to make, so I did. I was living in a tiny, cr***y apartment and had no appliances (well, we might have had a blender). Since I was a big fan of Julia Child, I got out my big bowl and whisk and made it by hand. I actually made a couple more that way. For Christmas that year I was given a hand mixer.

Sure couldn’t do that now.

But the one I made is quite good. Next time I’m going to transfer the beaten egg whites to a bigger bowl for folding. The KA bowl is somewhat narrow and it’s hard to fold well in it.

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Today of all days I decided to make an angel food cake with most of the egg whites I had in the freezer. I haven’t made one in eons, so when Brown Eyed Baker posted a recipe, I decided to try her version. It was her directions that mostly appealed to me and I’m glad I tried it.

It’s hot down here, but we have the AC on so I thought that would keep the humidity at bay. But . . . Just as I started folding in the flour/sugar mixture, the heavens opened. I got it in the oven and it didn’t fall or anything. Eating the crumbs off the tube pan, it’s not too sweet. It might be a little dense but that may have had more to do with my folding or the egg whites being too old.

After we each have a piece, we’ll cut the rest and wrap and put in the freezer so it lasts longer.

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The melting of the sugar and butter is why the KAF brownies are so good. PJ even did a blog post about them way back when. The first time I made them my husband and I ate almost the whole batch in a day or 2!

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Thanks Aaron. I admit they are getting better but still not my texture. I don’t like cakey brownies - as Claire says you might as well have chocolate cake. I like the texture of the KAF fudgie brownies - they are not as dense.

Claire says these ar supposed to be chewy and this batch is not. I think it’s because my hand is still not strong enough to whisk vigorously as she says to do in the last step before folding. I do want to try making them again without doubling the recipe.

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